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Painful compromises. in cairo, people didnt make those kinds of concessions. egypts islamists wanted to push through a constitution that would be unacceptable to liberals and then to rule by presidential decree. tunisias new constitution which was approved overwhelmingly by a majority of islamists has hailed as the most progressive constitution in the world. last month i hosted a package at the world economic forum in davos with top leaders from the arab world. one of them, tunisias rasheed ganu...

Tunisias new constitution which was approved overwhelmingly by a majority of islamists has behaid as the most progressive constitution in the world. last month i hosted a package at the world economic forum in davos with top leaders from the arab world. one of them, tunisias rasheed ganuchi explained why the islamist party willingly stepped down from government in tunisia. we had two choices, he said. either we stay in power and lose democracy or we gain democracy and give up power. he chose the...

Cultural traits, god knows china had these cultural traits for hundreds of years and until 30 years ago, china had no growth, was a totally dysfunctional country. >> thats a great question. i mean thats not how were using culture in this kind of essentialist way. you know, confusionism in a way. obviously culture in this country, you have the heritage and then you come to america and its suddenly this mish mash, interacting with american society. one of the driving forces of the triple package i...

>> >> i havent seen him yet. im sure -- ive exchanged conversations about these very issues dwits hwith him personaly and i hope i get to see him before i leave russia to thank him. ive had a fantastic time here as a u.s. ambassador. its been a -- im very proud to represent my country here. >> michael mcfaul, thank you for joining us. we look forward to hearing from you back at stanford. lots more on the show including a dire warning on china. one says the second biggest economy is going to have...

From the first one. welcome both. >> thank you. >> the second machine age begins, you say, 15 years ago. what happens? >> one of our early indications that things were really different was when gary kasparov, the chess champion, lost to deep blue designed to play chess. we used to think of chess as one of the highest expressions of human intelligence and then the match with deep blue showed us something different. more recently another ibm super computer called watson showed us that human beings...

>> thats a great question. i mean thats not how were using culture in this kind of essentialist way. you know, confusionism in a way. obviously culture in this country, you have the heritage and then you come to america and its suddenly this mishmash, interacting with american society. one of the driving forces of the triple package is insecurity. often the insecurity of being an outsider. you know, that feeling of being an outsider and also being insecure financially, you know, youre the one wi...